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The villain shoved the scientist into the work bench, glass vessels shattering on the floor as the scientist struggled to catch themself.
"You have twenty-four hours to identify that DNA sample," the villain told them, turning to leave. "Don't bother trying to escape. My men are surrounding the facility with orders to shoot to kill."
The scientist blinked. "Are you stupid?"
The villain's shoulders flinched, as if the scientist's words had physically whipped them. "Excuse me?" they growled, turning back around to face the scientist.
"Twenty-four hours is nowhere near enough time to identify a DNA sequence. Even the crystallization alone will take days. Do you even understand what you're demanding of me?"
"Do it faster then."
"I won't do it at all," the scientist spat.
Without a second thought, the villain took two steps forward and struck the scientist across the face. The scientist stumbled, mouth open in shock. Their cheek throbbed and they could feel the skin turning red.
"I don't think you understand the gravity of your situation," the villain said. They grabbed the scientist by the collar of their shirt and lifted, forcing the scientist to meet their eyes. "Your team is fully preoccupied with reconnaissance and I know you don't hire excess staff in the laboratory. The nearest city is an hour by car and I've seen to it that the nearest radio towers will not be receiving or transmitting any signals from this location. And did you not hear me when I said the building is surrounded? Do the words 'shoot to kill' ring a bell?"
The scientist fumed and silently cursed their remote location. Their intention to keep the lab a secret had certainly backfired.
They glared up at the villain and tried to steady their breathing. "The only way I can identify a DNA sequence is by x-ray crystallography. The crystallization process will take three to five days and the instrument takes around eighteen hours to analyze a sample. I need at least a day to recreate the sequence once I have the sample's results." They swallowed. "I need at least a week to do this for you. A quick internet search could have told you as much."
Still seething, the villain dropped the scientist and allowed them to straighten their shirt.
"Get started then," they bit out. "I'll be back in an hour with... revised instructions."
They left the lab and slammed the door behind them, the impact rattling a rack of test tubes. The scientist stared at the door for a minute, then, with a deep breath, took the broom and began sweeping up the broken glass.
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Guys!! I'm organizing a masquerade-ball-themed phandom meetup (details soon!!!) but first, I need your input. Pls lmk in the replies or tags or anything so i can figure out logistics:
how far in advance do you want me to let you know about this if i'm planning on having it be a day-long thing?
most likely going to have the designated kick-off hours start around 10am-11am PST cuz that's the start of prime dnp upload time for me but it'll be an all-day thing so everyone's time zones get covered?
for context, it's gonna be a mix of either prepping a doodle or pic of yourself with a masquerade outfit OR making something dnp related (art, fic, whatever) with a masquerade theme so... respond accordingly lol
also I made the sideblog @phanniemasquerade, where I'll be posting the official meetup invitation and reblogging your posts later, so pls follow if you're interested or want the update!
(@bondnamesthejames @thighguys @wdapteo @bewareofthenewphannie ik you guys said you were interested)
(the tag game that was the insp)
EDIT: The invitation with all the details can be found here!! Event will start on 6/1 but is open throughout 6/2 as well for all of you who said that works better.
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HELLO I have recently found my way into Vinland Saga and I just wanted to drop in and tell you that your art is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL AND IT DESTROYS ME AND AHHHHHHH I have a lot of feelings and I hope you don't mind me yelling them at you i just
appreciate ur shit my dude you are amazing i am at a loss for words
i will never not have feelings about beautiful somft aching pining yearning bjorns hkzhkjshdgs
Hiii !
Thank you so much for the kind words, i gotta say it made it smile to read through your tags ! in this club we sure do cry a lot about Björn and his canonically gay thoughts.
But hey, as a treat, here's Askeladd and him happy and giddy, (probably after having to listen to some ludicrous bs) :
Merry crisis !
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If I could erase any piece of media from my brain so I could watch it again for the first time, aside from Harrow the Ninth (don’t @ me I’m aware of the irony), it would be the Bent-Neck Lady episode of the Haunting of Hill House
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